KSL Sakura

At 94,528 gross tons, KSL Sakura is the 3,692nd largest of the 84,014 vessels in this registry that report a tonnage. The median across that set is 5,994 GT, so this hull is about 16 times the typical vessel on record here. The largest measures 499,167 GT.

Among the 58,086 vessels this registry holds no type classification for held here, it ranks 2,055th by tonnage — larger than 96% of that group. Their median tonnage is 5,358 GT, and the largest tenth begin at 54,309 GT. The flag most often flown by this group is Panama (5,698 ships). The yard that appears most often against it is HD Hyundai Mipo, with 615 hulls on record.

KSL Sakura was built in 2015, making it 11 years old. It is one of 1,804 hulls in this registry delivered that year, a cohort whose median tonnage is 25,303 GT; within it this ship is the 182nd largest. Across the whole of the 2010s the registry holds 20,111 vessels, median 23,456 GT. The median build year across the entire registry is 1995.

The registry attributes 270 vessels to Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding, with a median tonnage of 94,385 GT, delivered between 2003 and 2025. See the rest of that yard’s output.

At 292.0 m overall, KSL Sakura is 177.0 m longer than the 115.0 m median for vessels this registry holds no type classification for on record.

IMO numbers are issued in broadly chronological blocks. Within 500 either side of 9719941 this registry holds 47 other vessels, whose median build year is 2015 and which range from 2013 to 2019. That places this hull’s registration in the same part of the series, consistent with its recorded build year of 2015.

Its IMO number, 9719941, carries its own check digit. The first six digits are weighted seven down to two and summed — 9×7 + 7×6 + 1×5 + 9×4 + 9×3 + 4×2 = 181 — and the last digit of that total, 1, must equal the seventh digit, 1. It does, so this number is well formed.